Episode 192 - Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique - Part 1

[00:00:04] Speaker A: This is our musical reaction breakdown and commentary analysis of this song. Under Fair use, we intend no copyright infringement and this is not a replacement for listening to the artist's music. The content made available on this podcast is for educational and informational purposes only, notwithstanding a copyright owner's rights under the Copyright Act. Section 107 of the Copyright act allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders for purposes such as education, criticism, comment, news, reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. These so called fair uses are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing. Now onto the Roc Roulette Podcast. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Foreign. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Welcome back to another episode of Rock Roulette Podcast. That's right, the crazy ass podcast that took over 1, 800 albums, stuck them in a list, stuck them in a wheel. And every other week we spin the wheel. She picks a record for us and we go through a track by track. We talk about the music, the lyrics, the production, the melody and the arrangement. Just a bunch of friends who love music want to do a podcast. And everyone who takes this trip with us. I've discussed discovery and rediscovery. We really want to thank you. Reach out to us, tell us what you like, what you don't like. Maybe some albums we can listen to. Or tell us about a song that we can throw on the baby wheel. For the new BET section, we are a trio. We have Frank. [00:01:47] Speaker C: My name is Frank. And I'm sexy. [00:02:03] Speaker D: Hello everyone. [00:02:04] Speaker A: We have Mark. Oh hi Mark. [00:02:05] Speaker C: What's up guys? [00:02:06] Speaker A: And I'm Seb. Ciao Buena Theater. Last week we wrapped up the sophomore album from Firehouse. I think the word that came up most was competent. I think that they were competent in what they were trying to do. I think we all agree that the last song was the best song. It was the most different on the record. It was a little bit more under the surf. Musicianship wise. There were no real complaints. Mark, what was your overall take on the record? [00:02:30] Speaker C: I don't like Firehouse. I thought the second side was better than the first side. I appreciate the musical competency. Other than that, for me, it's more product than it is music. I have to admit there's a couple songs on that second side that were pretty decent. It's not going to change my opinion whether I don't like them or like them. You have to give them credit. During the time when they shouldn't have any kind of sales, they were able to get 500,000 out. Good for them. [00:02:50] Speaker A: In an era where that music definitely was not the Specialty of the day, without a doubt. Frank, what was your overall take? [00:02:57] Speaker D: Same as the two of you. There was nothing really original about it. We heard everybody else in their music, every other band that existed before that time. I gave consistent scoring to the production because the production delivered what they wanted. I thought it was great. They got the sound that they wanted. They nailed it really good from that aspect. Better songs on side, too. Overall, for me, there was only one song that was really good, and that's the last one that. That's something I definitely added onto playlist. [00:03:24] Speaker A: Yep. You definitely complimented the production more than Mark and I did. We get to spin the wheel again tonight, which is always exciting. But before we get to the Mama Wheel, we got the Baby wheel and the new Betsy. [00:03:35] Speaker D: In a world where new music is not easy to find, welcome to New Bets. [00:03:53] Speaker A: However, we are letting the baby wheel take a nap tonight because something came up in my feed that I mentioned to Mark and Frank. A band called Iconic, which is a mix of 80s and 90s names that we all know, other than the singer, which I'm not sure if you guys know, the name is Nathan James. It includes Michael Sweet, Joel Hoekstra, Tommy Aldridge, and Marco Mendoza. Very common names to us having grown up in that period in music. A song called Cry no More. And I said, hey, this could be interesting. And actually, Mark, they. They have an album already, second skin from 2022. I'm reading. If that's not on the list, maybe you can throw that in there. Maybe it'll show up on the Mama Wheel as well. [00:04:31] Speaker C: You never know. It could be on there already for all you know. [00:04:33] Speaker A: Tommy Aldridge is 75 years old, by the way. [00:04:36] Speaker C: He hasn't changed at all. [00:04:38] Speaker D: You've got to be kidding me. [00:04:39] Speaker A: He looks 75. When he was drumming for Ozzie. [00:04:42] Speaker D: He's 75. Oh, my goodness. [00:04:45] Speaker A: I think just because he's so thin. [00:04:47] Speaker D: Is he really. [00:04:48] Speaker A: He's got chops. Yeah, I just read it. 75 years old. [00:04:51] Speaker D: Wow. God bless. Good for him. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah, he can still fucking pound the beat, man. [00:04:56] Speaker D: Yeah, he could still rock at 75. [00:04:59] Speaker A: Good for him. [00:04:59] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:05:00] Speaker A: I'm curious about this to see what era this sounds like and what they do. Yeah. [00:05:04] Speaker C: All right, let's do this. This is Iconic, and it's Cry. No. [00:05:44] Speaker B: Let my sense go through the night Surrounded by the stars While the moon casts its gold Cast its go Voices in the darkness Giving away when I believe Find it to the side oh, yeah. In the streets where the devil smiles when the sun goes down through the fire I don't want to lose time at night I have this feeling oh I have this feeling that there's no more reason to believe what is false and what is real all it needs to carry on Watch the pain and cry no more. The window Whisper Lost in space so there's the truth inside and it's time for your faith K oh, yeah Echoes through the struggles still to see for the. In the streets where the devil smiles when the sun goes down through the fire I don't want to lose time Coming back I have this feeling oh, I have this feeling that there's no more reasons to believe what is false and what is real Only needs to carry on Watch the pain and cry no more no one can see what we are supposed to be no one can feel what there is inside of me no one can see what we are Supposed to be Supposed to be no one can feel what there is inside of me. No more reasons to believe what is Boston what is real Only need to carry on what's the pain and cry no more reasons to believe what is possible what is real Only need to care Car. [00:09:25] Speaker A: Mark, you go first. I always go first. You go first this time. [00:09:28] Speaker C: The riff is very 80s. The chorus is not 80s. I don't know if the chorus is newer sounding or 90s sounding, but it's kind of two different songs. I thought it was pretty decent. [00:09:38] Speaker A: Didn't like the drum sound. And the funny thing is it's mostly the snare. That's what really gets me. I like the bass drum sound. The drumming was great. I mean, obviously the musicianship was overall very good. I wish wasn't crazy about the voice. It wasn't as bad in the chorus, but it felt during the verse when he was really stretching it. I wasn't crazy about that. Especially when you got somebody like Michael Sweet backing you up in the chorus. I'm sure it's. It sounded better. He reminded me of. And I can't think of his damn name. Oh, he sang with Rainbow and Impellitary. But a lot of people like this person's voice. I'm like, really? [00:10:09] Speaker B: I was like. [00:10:10] Speaker A: Kind of sounds like he shouts more than anything. Frank, what do you think? [00:10:13] Speaker D: I gotta tell you, this is the first time I heard a song that actually had 80s, 90s and 2000 sounds, or all together in one song and come together in a cohesive way. That was really good. That was really good. Wow. I liked it a lot. I think the drumming is more of the early 2000 sounds kind of a thing. I know you're not a big fan of that. [00:10:33] Speaker A: It's mostly the snare. It's funny because I mentioned it in the last episode. I always refer to that snare sound as the firehouse snare sound in my mind. I don't think I've ever mentioned it before. I made a note to mention it last time because that's what it reminded me of. [00:10:46] Speaker B: Love. [00:10:47] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:10:48] Speaker D: I liked it. It was good. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Good pick. [00:10:49] Speaker C: Singer sounded like Dio a little bit. A little bit of deal going on there, maybe because it was so high in the verses. It was really high. I thought he almost couldn't hit the things he was trying to hit. It was so high. I'm not going to get into guitar playing because everyone's competent in what they do. But I have the same problems with this as I have with a lot of late 80s stuff. I don't even know if I know Joel Hoekstream's guitar sound. I know he's a great guitar player. I just don't know if he has a sound that I would be able to pick out out of anything. It's good. Don't get me wrong. Obviously, the playing is great. It just misses personal a little bit, and that's really my only issue. [00:11:20] Speaker A: I like the solo. [00:11:21] Speaker C: It's good. I'm not banging on the plane. I would rather listen to this and some of the that's happening right now. [00:11:26] Speaker A: I don't know who played the solo. Are you familiar with Hoaxer at all? [00:11:29] Speaker C: I know a little bit of the stuff he's done, so maybe that could be what it is. Maybe this is what he sounds like, and I just don't know what he sounds like. I know he's a good guitar player. I've seen him play. I've seen him on stuff. I would like to hear a whole album of that. I know the first album is on the list. [00:11:42] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:11:44] Speaker C: All right, well, if you guys like it, let us know on social media. And let's rubber stamp this in a [00:11:50] Speaker D: world where new music is not easy to find. [00:11:56] Speaker B: Welcome to New Bets. [00:12:08] Speaker A: So we get to spin the Mamow wheel, which is always exciting. And as usual, I will go around the table. We'll start with Frank. Frank, what do you want? What do you think? [00:12:19] Speaker D: You know, it'd be nice to hear a little industrial metal. I'm thinking Fear Factory. I'm thinking Ministry. Maybe Nine Inch Nails. Nine Inch Nails. They just released an album. How about you, Mark? [00:12:30] Speaker C: I don't know. I think I want something late 90s for some strange reason. Linkin park, something of that nature. [00:12:37] Speaker A: We never had them, never had industrial. I was actually thinking along those lines. I was thinking a 90s album that we don't know would be cool, like some kind of rocky, grungy discovery that we may or may not know the bands. If we don't know the band, and we're like, oh, what the heck is this? And they're like, oh, this is, you know, this wasn't on the radar. Something like that would be cool. I guess we'll see. [00:12:58] Speaker C: Yeah, let's do it. Here is the wheel. [00:13:22] Speaker A: Oh, this is something different. Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, second album. [00:13:27] Speaker C: That's interesting. That's different for us. I know I put this on here on purpose because generally they have some kind of rock stuff in there, but I don't know if this record has any of that stuff. I know there's a lot of samples. I don't think there's any playing technically. [00:13:38] Speaker A: Sometimes described as a sergeant Pepper of hip hop. Are you very familiar with this record? Familiar enough. [00:13:43] Speaker D: When it first came out, it wasn't that big of a deal. It became a bigger deal later on, maybe like almost a cult classic kind of a thing. And then eventually, as time progressed, it was viewed as one of the more iconic hip hop albums. Like Nas. You ask anybody who's into that genre of hip hop, they'll tell you that Nas is. Illmatic is considered the number one album of the golden age of hip hop for its style, lyrical style, stuff like. [00:14:09] Speaker A: My son has it on vinyl. He bought it on vinyl. [00:14:11] Speaker B: Wow. [00:14:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Because I told him about Stillmatic when it came out, not when it came out. Obviously he wasn't around when it came out. I told him about Stillmatic and he listened to some of that and then he liked that. And then he bought the other one. [00:14:24] Speaker D: What I remember they were very New York, a very New York group, and they became very big, Lower east side kind of a thing. I know that this album wasn't as big. It just grew as it aged to the point where it's considered an iconic album for hip hop. [00:14:40] Speaker A: I'm kind of excited. I don't really know them a lot. I know the hits. Fight for your Right is catchy as hell. I mean, stupid, but it's catchy as hell. But even going into, like, the later years, I thought they were pretty good. [00:14:50] Speaker D: Were they still a Rick Rubin for this? I know they. That they broke off from Rick Rubin early. I don't know if it was this one or the after this. [00:14:57] Speaker A: This is the Dust Brothers. [00:14:58] Speaker D: Okay. So they were already gone. [00:15:00] Speaker C: Supposedly it didn't do very well. Was written off by most of the music critics during the time. [00:15:05] Speaker D: Really? [00:15:05] Speaker A: Okay. [00:15:06] Speaker C: It's less commercial, obviously. There's a couple things that I know off of this. I know hits. I know some other songs that maybe are not hits, but I don't think I've ever listened to an actual Beastie Boys album all the way through. [00:15:16] Speaker A: I don't think so either. [00:15:17] Speaker D: Really? [00:15:18] Speaker A: No. [00:15:18] Speaker C: A lot of the bands and things, you know, you know the big songs, so you think you feel like you know them, but really you don't know as much. I think I know AC dc, but I don't know all the ACDC as I could. [00:15:29] Speaker D: No, this is going to be a good one. It's going to be fun. [00:15:31] Speaker C: Do I have to read the words on this? I assume I do if it's a lot, Mark. [00:15:35] Speaker A: No, I mean, we just have to pay attention. I mean, obviously, I know rap songs have a ton of lyrics. [00:15:39] Speaker D: You can't really. You got to rap it, bro. You got to spit it. You got to do. You got to spit the bars, bro. [00:15:44] Speaker C: You could do it. That's fine. I have no problem turning it over to you. [00:15:48] Speaker A: Just kind of pay attention to what's going on. I think you'll be dry by the time you're done. [00:15:52] Speaker B: On. [00:15:53] Speaker C: So this is 1989, obviously. The personnel are Mike D, MCA and AD Rock. [00:15:59] Speaker A: MCA is the one that died, right? [00:16:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:01] Speaker C: It's been a while. He died in 2012 already. [00:16:03] Speaker B: Wow. [00:16:04] Speaker A: I have a video of us when we did the COVID band and we dedicated that song to him. [00:16:09] Speaker C: We have played BC Boys in the band. [00:16:10] Speaker A: Well, fight for your Right. [00:16:11] Speaker D: We. [00:16:12] Speaker A: We did. [00:16:12] Speaker C: It's very popular cover song. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:14] Speaker C: All right. This is to all the girls. [00:16:17] Speaker A: Yeah. To all the Brooklyn girls To all the French girls To all the Oriental girls Chinese, Chinese, Japanese, Japanese to all the Swiss girls World the Italian women To the Upper east side. To all the Jamaican girls. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Australia, Australia. [00:17:25] Speaker A: To the Southern bells. To the Puerto Rican girls To the stewardess flying around the world around the world. I like the music. They're not really saying much in the lyrics. I like how they're all girls, but the Italian or women. I noticed that he's like Italian women. He kind of stops for a second. So funny. [00:17:52] Speaker C: I can read it because it's really quick. [00:17:53] Speaker A: Okay. [00:17:54] Speaker C: Yeah. To all the Brooklyn girls To all the French girls or the Oriental girls Chinese, Japanese to all the Swiss girls and the Italian women To the Upper east side New Biles to all the Jamaican girls and to the topless dancers. Or straddling and Brazilian to the Southern belles, to the Puerto Rican girls, to the stewardesses flying around the world. My question would be, would you be able to make this today before you got canceled? [00:18:17] Speaker A: Well, I mean, Upper east side New Biles, I mean, that's a little. They're saying it's a more mature take on women after the first record, so if that tells you anything. [00:18:27] Speaker C: Is this an actual rating thing here? Are we just going to skip the rating on this? [00:18:31] Speaker A: Yeah, this is like an interesting. I definitely like the music, though. And at first I was going to say, Mark, I can't hear it. Wait, let me just see if it's just one of those things where just the volume raises and that's what happens. Happen. [00:18:40] Speaker C: I like whatever they're sampling for that. I'm not sure what the sample came from, but I kind of like it. I thought it was good how they put it together and the beats that they put together is pretty good. [00:18:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I really like the music. [00:18:49] Speaker D: Yeah, I love that whole jazzy, bluesy kind of sound that they got going on here. Awesome. [00:18:54] Speaker C: All right, we won't rate that one. We'll just go to the next one. The next one is shake your rump. [00:19:32] Speaker B: I'm on time, homie. That's how it goes. You heard my style. I think you missed a point. It's the joy. Back from the dead Chilling at the beach down at Club Med making out the record. Cuz some people, they want more of this sucker. They be saying they can take out Adam Horovitz, Hurricane got clown. Other DJs put your head out. My stone bar. [00:20:53] Speaker A: I definitely like the music. I like the rapping too. Lyrics are pretty silly. It's a good song song. I like the sampling. I like the production of it. Sounds good. It's clear. I've always been more of a fan of old school gangster rap. NWA Public Enemy. They're like the big beats. I like that this is loud. The production on the drums and everything is really cool. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty cool. [00:21:13] Speaker C: It's definitely old school rapping style. I don't think they ever changed their style from when started to the end was always this kind of style rapping. Even when the rapping changed, they never changed. They did it all the same, always. I think MCA has always been my favorite. When he rapped cracked, whatever reason, I just liked his voice. I liked the way he came in. He felt like he was like the bad Boy. Guy of the whole band. When MCA came in, it was like, oh, crap, here he comes. Yeah, I thought it was good. And the drums are definitely sample drums. They're not. It's not a drum machine. You can hear this. Not a drum machine. It's drums. I don't know where the sample comes from. [00:21:48] Speaker A: I don't know either. I mean, I'd probably have to sit there and think. If I even know. Probably some of the stuff will be obvious. [00:21:54] Speaker D: Fresh. I think that's the word you were looking for. [00:21:58] Speaker A: Fresh. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Dope. [00:22:00] Speaker A: It's fresh. [00:22:02] Speaker D: Definitely love it. I guess that's a bass sounding that they just manipulated there. [00:22:07] Speaker C: Oh, the what? Shake your rumpa. That part. [00:22:09] Speaker D: No, no. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that when I first heard that beat right there, it was like. That's what made me go wild for it. [00:22:18] Speaker C: I like the stuff that they do. I think they're very innovative in the way they do things. Even though the rapping is old style, I think their way they take samples and move them all around. I wonder how many times they would have got sued if there was really suing going on at this point. Because I doubt very highly that they got rights to take all the samples. Back in the day. [00:22:35] Speaker A: I don't know how it worked, to be honest with you. I mean, I know everybody gets credit now, for sure. [00:22:40] Speaker C: I don't think there was much back then, not the way it is now. Unless your song was really gigantic. Then I think someone came and found you and said, yeah, that's our shit. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Or maybe how much use of it? Who was it that did the Van [00:22:50] Speaker C: Halen one Own Low? [00:22:52] Speaker A: Oh, was it. What did he Wild Thing? [00:22:56] Speaker C: Genie's crying. [00:22:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, but I was thinking the two Life Crew. Didn't they take Ain't Talking About Love? [00:23:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I think they took that, too, [00:23:04] Speaker A: because I think that's what I'm thinking of. That was a really big. Like, they got sued big time for it. [00:23:09] Speaker C: Yeah, well, they didn't even hide it. Well, it's the same thing with Vanilla Ice and the Queen Baseball. [00:23:14] Speaker A: Oh, boy. Yes. [00:23:16] Speaker C: It's not dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. It's dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Okay, okay. Still, give us our money. All right, let's continue. Here we go. [00:24:04] Speaker D: Paris, is your name Michael Diamond? [00:24:05] Speaker B: No, mine's Clavis from downtown Manhattan, from Village. My style's wild and you know that it's still this snow bag something and you doing the ball. Shake your rock. [00:24:55] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm sure the songs will probably all go into Each other. [00:24:57] Speaker C: Yeah, it's fun. I like the Brady Bunch reference. [00:25:01] Speaker A: Yes, the Brady Bunch reference. I like that. Yeah. There was another thing too in there. Like I forgot what it was was. But then they added that other sample too into it. That one part that wasn't there before. I thought that was cool. [00:25:12] Speaker C: I always feel that there's a lot of punk in their stuff. Even though there's not punk. It always feels like there's some punkish aspect to what they do. [00:25:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, there's definitely rock elements. [00:25:20] Speaker D: Lower east side influence, that's what you're hearing. Lower east side Sounds was a lot of punk during that time. I wouldn't be surprised at what you hear. [00:25:29] Speaker C: Right, go first. [00:25:30] Speaker D: This is one of my favorite songs by them. I'm going to try to not sound like a fanboy. The music, I mean, because there's so many samples. The complexity itself. First of all, how are we going to rank the lyrics, production, and what else? [00:25:43] Speaker C: You could do everything. I think you're gonna take music as being how the samples are put together and making it to a song. So I guess you count that as musicianship. [00:25:50] Speaker D: Okay. So the musicianship for this because there's so many different samples in there and the complexity of them, you got to give that a 10. It was really complex, except especially for the time that they did it. Definitely gonna give that a 10. Production, I'm gonna give a 10. I mean, the lyrics are great. They're really fun. So I'm going to give those a nine. The melody, I'll go ahead and give that an eight. The arrangement, I give it eight. [00:26:12] Speaker C: Ryan's going to make his own categories up for this because I don't know [00:26:15] Speaker D: how to do this one. [00:26:16] Speaker A: That's why it is a little bit different because they're not playing the instruments. I think arrangement is more important on this record than the other stuff. Mark, before you go, just so you know, there's at least 18 samples in this song. [00:26:27] Speaker C: Oh, wow. [00:26:28] Speaker D: That's why I give it so high. Because there's so much going on. Different sounds, all. All multi layered and complex. That's why I give it a high score. Mark. [00:26:36] Speaker C: To me, the lyrics are fun. I'm gonna give it a seven. I don't want to go too high yet because there may be other things. Even though I do like this song, I know this song for the melody. I'm gonna do seven because I like the way the rap goes on. Musicianship, I'm gonna say eight. Arrangement, I'm gonna say eight. And production, I'M gonna say eight. I think it's really good. It's one of my favorites from them. I want to hold off because they might be things I might like much better on here that I don't know. I'm not going to go balls to the wall like Frank did right off the bat. Jeff. [00:27:00] Speaker A: Yeah, I think I'll be a little conservative too. I definitely like it. Definitely a fun song. The lyrics are kind of silly. I don't know that I can give high lyrics. I'm gonna say five on the lyrics. I understand what they are. I understand what the thing is. But at the same time, there could be stuff coming that's a little bit more serious where I can say, okay, see, this is kind of like they dropped the silliness factor of it and they elevated it. Arrangement. I'll say an 8. They arranged the things well. I think they kept it very interesting. It was never born boring. Melody seven. I'll say Music seven, Production and eight. I like the first two songs already. I mean, definitely. Musically, Yeah. [00:27:35] Speaker C: I think you have to take musicianship and arrangement in this situation, kind of mush them together. I don't think you can really separate those two things. That's how I look at it. I don't know how you guys are gonna do it, but that's what I think I'm gonna do. [00:27:44] Speaker A: I think it's more about arrangement. If you listen to song like Sabotage, where there's a riff that they wrote. Yeah, you can say, right? It's. It's different. [00:27:51] Speaker C: All right, so this is Johnny Rylee. [00:28:23] Speaker B: Watching windows on a bar to four Cuz he ain't going to work a nice farm no more Living on borrowed time and bought money Sleeping in the street ain't a damn thing funny With a hand me down fool and a hand me down clothes A rockabilly pasta which nobody knows Makes a song all over the place. He goes to sleep or falling down on his face sometimes no. As the leader of the homeless Sometimes drop the kids Always phoneless Sleep on the street in a cardboard box Better off drinking than smoking a rock Johnny Ronny. Royale. Johnny royale. [00:29:13] Speaker A: This is a story about an actual person. Johnny Rael was a homeless person that used to sleep on their stoop. These are good lyrics for what are. This is what I'm saying. I think it's not as silly. It's kind of delivered in a little bit of a silly way. It's not bad. I like the vibe of it. I'm not feeling this one as much as the other ones. But I don't dislike it. [00:29:32] Speaker C: I find it funny because while we lived in the Bronx, you always knew the homeless guy. The one homeless guy that ran around. And that's what this reminds me of. One homeless guy that everybody knew. Obviously, it's not Johnny Royale. [00:29:44] Speaker A: No, ours was Ishii. Frank, you remember Ishii, right? [00:29:47] Speaker D: Never forget him. Never forget. [00:29:48] Speaker A: I don't know how true it was. He was some. [00:29:50] Speaker D: A rich guy. He came from a rich family. [00:29:53] Speaker A: I didn't hear that. I heard he sold guns. That's what I heard. [00:29:57] Speaker D: He was an arm dealer. [00:29:59] Speaker A: That's what I heard. Yeah, he dealt in arms. I don't know how true that was. [00:30:03] Speaker C: He was probably none of those things. He was just a homeless guy. But people made up stories. Just like this whole thing about this guy. You got to remember, too, when all the rap stuff started to happen in the early ages that we were around, it's interesting because unless you live the way we lived in the Bronx, rap didn't get around really quick to everybody. We saw the beginnings of it and when it got really big. Yeah, we were there for the birthday of it. [00:30:24] Speaker A: Of hip hop. [00:30:25] Speaker C: Yeah. This stuff brings you back just because you feel like this is your thing. Even though they're not from the Bronx, but a lot of the rap came from the Bronx. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Africa, Bombada. [00:30:34] Speaker C: Yeah, well, lots of stuff. [00:30:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I mean. [00:30:37] Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah, I like this. I like the samples they're using. I like the rapping. The rapping is good. All the rapping always comes out in a funny way, even if it's not funny. [00:30:45] Speaker A: Yeah, agreed. [00:30:46] Speaker C: It's the delivery. [00:30:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:47] Speaker D: Frank, being part of hip hop during that time up and coming in the 80s, I used to remember people used to walk around with their huge boom boxes that used to take 18 double D batteries and they'll play them all night long. The big ghetto blasters, that's what they used to call them. And people used to walk around ready to break dance at any given time. Like people don't know. It was real industries. Be walking and somebody wants to dance battle. You had to stand up, you had to go dance battle them. Das was really big during that time. Yeah, it was just a really, really fun time to come of age to watch that music genre rise. [00:31:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:22] Speaker A: I remember in sixth grade, we had a party and one of our common friends, try not to mention names, we did knee spins in the classroom and we. They had cleared out the desk, but we purposely banged into the desks and we gave another girl an asthma attack because she was Laughing so hard. [00:31:36] Speaker D: Yeah, those are fun times. [00:31:37] Speaker C: Let's continue. Here we go. [00:31:49] Speaker B: Crowd he lives in the street but he's no born. Louis Vuitton with the Gucci guitar Shiny Royale who do you think you are? Shiny Royale, Shiny Royale. Know what it's for? Bottle after bottle he always needs more he's no less important than working class he painted. His name is johnny, johnny royale. Johnny. [00:33:19] Speaker A: Have you guys ever had Night Train? [00:33:21] Speaker D: Of course. Oh, my God. Hey, I had them all, man. Had the Night Train. Had The Mad Dog 2020. Had to try the cult 45 one time. [00:33:33] Speaker A: Time. Yeah, I had that too. I had Night Train once. We were going to our winter gathering in Hunter and I had it in the car ride. I wasn't driving. Little bottle. I don't think I drank the whole thing. I was sharing it. The first thing I did when we parked at the hotel, opened up the door and threw up. It made me so sick. I am never ever touching that shit again. [00:33:55] Speaker C: There was some nasty, nasty shit back in the day. Cheap junk that you could was so cheap you get somebody to buy it for you if you were underage each different times. Oh, yeah, way different times. [00:34:08] Speaker D: Yeah, you could go to the supermarket and get the Boone's wine. It was $2. [00:34:13] Speaker C: And then wasn't it like ever clear too? Wasn't that can it kill you? [00:34:16] Speaker D: That was a little later on. People were going blind because they'll drink too much of it. [00:34:19] Speaker C: What was the stuff that was blue in a bottle clear? No, no, this was alcohol, but it was in like a blue bottle. I forget what it's called. There was some nasty out there, boy. With cheap, cheap, cheap junk. If you listen to all these lyrics, exactly what they're saying. Well, he could have been this. He's this kind of guy. Everyone made up stories about the homeless guy. There was always a story about him, what he did, whether he was an arms dealer, he was rich and he just walked around because he wanted to. It's just so funny how their ideas of what this is is the same things about what our ideas, what it was same exact thing. Sad. Why don't you go next? [00:34:54] Speaker A: I like the lyrics a lot. I think I'm gonna say seven on the lyrics lyrics, seven on production and six on everything else. It's not bad, but this one doesn't stand out to me. This could be one of those where on a couple more listens it'll sink in. And that two, three, four. Reminded me of rock soldiers. Mark. [00:35:12] Speaker C: Yeah. I think seven on the lyrics. I'm Gonna do six on everything else and seven on production, like SAP did. I think I like it, but I think it could be not my favorite so far. I don't know what else is coming on, but I do think the lyrics in here are very smart. Right. [00:35:27] Speaker D: I'm gonna say seven on lyrics, seven on production. I'm gonna do seven across. It's a fun song, very relatable. And I think that's gonna be the theme throughout this whole album, that they're gonna be talking a lot about the things that we grew up around. Dug it sevens for me all the way across. It's great to be here. Thank you. It's quintuple seven just for Nicolo. Nikki, Titty Baby Clowns, two of you. [00:35:51] Speaker A: I love the way it says Nicolo. [00:35:54] Speaker D: Nicolo, Nicolo. [00:35:56] Speaker C: Okay, the next one is Eggman. [00:36:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:36:15] Speaker B: I looked out the window seeing his bald head Ran through the fridge and pulled out an egg Scored my sculpt. He had no hair. Lost that shit. He was caught out there Saw the convertible driving by Loaded up the slingshot let one fly he went for his divine he didn't have one Put him in check My egg gun Egg a symbol of life A co Once that dies the bus out to white I pulled out the jammy thought it was a joke the trigger I pulled his fade to yolk Reached in his pocket took all his cash Left my man standing with the egg mustache suckers they come a dime a dozen When I say dozen, you know know what I'm talking about, boy. [00:36:49] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. [00:36:51] Speaker B: I'm the eggman. Driving around king of the town Always got my windows rolled down. [00:37:05] Speaker A: I'm definitely digging this one more. I love the fullness of it. I like the rapping in it. The fullness of it is really what's grabbing me here. And I'm just bobbing my head to it. [00:37:14] Speaker C: Samples are great. The lyrics. [00:37:16] Speaker B: Wow. [00:37:16] Speaker C: Do we relate to this. Buying eggs, especially during Halloween was the thing. I remember we bought cases of eggs to throw people. We threw them at cars. We put them down girls shirts and pushed them up against walls and broke it inside their shirt. Oh, this is crazy. This is definitely relatable. [00:37:33] Speaker D: Told you it's gonna be very relatable. That's the theme. [00:37:35] Speaker C: Brings back memories. How many eggs did we buy? I remember used to be other blocks. You used to have the egg fights, but other blocks. I don't know if this is just a New York City thing and maybe other people don' same way, but we. Oh, my God. The Amount of eggs. And we had an eggman that lived on the block. Remember, Frank? [00:37:50] Speaker A: Yep. [00:37:50] Speaker C: It's so funny. [00:37:51] Speaker A: I remember one Halloween walking down the block where the two brothers and bands that we know lived. And that block was always so great because it was such a dynamic because one side was metal, the other side was salsa. And both music going at the same time. Everybody just hanging out. It was so cool. There was no competition. All right, you, we blast yours, we blast ours. Everybody's chilling. But one Halloween, I was walking down that block, and as I got toward the end of the block, I guess someone from I don't know where was trying to hit me with eggs. And when I tell you it was. They missed me, like, three times. It was like. Because they were one step behind me. But it happened so fast that by the time the third one's like, all right, this. I'm running, like, what? I don't know. I don't know where this is coming from, but there's an egg sniper. You gotta run. [00:38:39] Speaker C: It was like being in war. [00:38:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. You gotta be careful. Some people really got up with eggs, man. [00:38:45] Speaker C: I remember seeing some shits if you got hit in the eye or something. Oh, it was nasty. [00:38:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And cleaning that up. [00:38:50] Speaker C: Imagine what this would cost now to throw this much eggs to. How many eggs did we throw people? [00:38:54] Speaker A: You can't. [00:38:55] Speaker D: Yeah. No. [00:38:56] Speaker C: You'd have to be rich to do it now. [00:38:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:58] Speaker C: A dozen eggs just thrown into people be. Well, I don't know if I could do this. This is too much. [00:39:02] Speaker A: Throw the eggs and, like. Wait, wait, don't wait. I'm taking it back. Hold on. I know it's broken, but I need it just like. [00:39:09] Speaker D: Just going back. I remember Halloween night. The neighborhood would be completely in ruins for days. For days. Because eggs and toilet paper everywhere. [00:39:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:19] Speaker D: It just brought me back. I miss those days. [00:39:22] Speaker C: Although I thought it was more eggs than toilet paper. I don't remember toilet paper as much. [00:39:26] Speaker A: I remember some toilet paper, but eggs were freaking massive, though. [00:39:29] Speaker D: Yeah. Not as much as toilet paper, but eggs was everywhere, Raining everywhere. [00:39:34] Speaker A: Next day on cleanup on stuff Must have been, because all you saw were eggs on the sides of buildings. The apartment buildings, the stores in the street. It's basically like a ticker tape parade with eggs. [00:39:46] Speaker C: Yeah. It was crazy. [00:39:48] Speaker D: People driving by in their BMX is throwing eggs at you. [00:39:52] Speaker A: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. The sides of cars with the eggs. [00:39:57] Speaker C: Oh, my God, we're lucky. We can get arrested. And I have to just make sure everyone understands this. We didn't buy a dozen Dozen eggs. We bought a case of eggs. I don't even know how many. [00:40:05] Speaker A: Dozens. [00:40:06] Speaker C: In a case there was a lot of eggs. Because you knew that the people on the other block were buying eggs. And if they saw you and you didn't have eggs and they had eggs, you were getting hammered with eggs. Yeah. [00:40:17] Speaker A: No, you need, you need to be careful. [00:40:18] Speaker C: You need protection. [00:40:19] Speaker A: You need it. Yeah. And you need to be ready. [00:40:21] Speaker C: You had to have your own egg protection. [00:40:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:23] Speaker C: All right, let's continue. Here we go. [00:40:27] Speaker B: Humpty Dumpty was a big fat egg broke his leg toasted out the window three minutes high hit the restaurant he said which came first? The chicken on the egg. I ate the chicken and then I ate his leg. Riding the trains in between cars When I pull out the station you're going to get your drive my eggies liking LA yo they just caught my little cousin. I say sometimes hot oil, sometimes running out a bunny laugh there's no twinning yeah and I'm going to y. We all dressed in black we stuck up around the back. We began to attack the eggs to crack on Hayes's back. I am down with the program Green egg and maybe Sam come Halloween. You know I don't stop, I do what I'm supposed you made the mistake and judge a man by his race. You go to life with eggs on your face. Woke up in the morning peculiar feeling. Looked up and saw eggs dripping from the ceiling. Family don't cry. You miss this man. I call anybody with the egg in my hand. Not like the crack that you put in a pipe but crack on your bite is. [00:42:19] Speaker A: I love this sight. Psycho talking about things the From Psycho. The murder. The murder. The shower scene from Psycho. And they mentioned Halloween specifically. [00:42:33] Speaker C: Yep. Come Halloween, you know, I come strapped. I throw it at a sucker. Kapow. [00:42:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:42] Speaker D: My favorite one is the last two. It's not like the crack that you put in your pipe but cracking your forehead. Here, here's a towel, knife, wipe. [00:42:52] Speaker C: Oh my God. It's ridiculous. And then they said about putting in people's backs. We all dressed in black, we snuck up around the back. We began to attack the eggs did crack on Hayes's back again. I don't know if this is really a non rest of the country thing or is this only a New York thing? I don't really know. But this is exactly the way it was. [00:43:11] Speaker A: Toilet papers are big in other suburbs. Maybe that's it. Maybe it's a suburb thing. That's what it was. Clearly we were not in the Stuff suburb where we were. [00:43:18] Speaker D: No, no, no, no. [00:43:20] Speaker A: Maybe it was more of a suburb thing. The. The toilet paper and the trees. Because I mean, honestly, what trees? Were you gonna throw the toilet paper where we were? [00:43:26] Speaker D: No movies. The big thing here was not necessarily toilet paper, but you jump the kids, take the sneakers off, tie them up, and throw them up on the phone line. [00:43:37] Speaker A: Yep, I remember that. [00:43:40] Speaker C: That meant something else though, too, by the way. You remember what else it meant? Yeah. [00:43:44] Speaker A: What did that mean? You could get drugs. [00:43:46] Speaker C: Yep. [00:43:46] Speaker A: Somebody told me that. Yeah, see, I didn't believe know that until later on. Person I met later on from the Bronx. Oh, maybe my parents, like sheltered me from that. [00:43:55] Speaker D: No, I didn't know that. [00:43:57] Speaker A: Or they didn't want me to know where I can get drugs. [00:44:00] Speaker C: Maybe not. Well, here's a funny story. When I moved up here, where we are now, which is outside the city, there were sneakers hanging in front of my house on a phone line. And so I went to my neighbor and I was like, you know what that means, right? He's like, no. Well, someone just put in their sneakers. I was like, no, that's the thing. This is where drugs are. Because there's woods behind my house. I think there was some shady shit going on back behind there. So someone threw something up there so people knew this is the place. [00:44:23] Speaker A: Oh, well, I didn't know that. [00:44:25] Speaker C: Yeah, it just wasn't thrown up there for no reason. Sometimes it was like you said, people got jumped and then they did the people just so the them up. [00:44:31] Speaker D: Because when I used to play frosh basketball, the seniors used to jumpers take our sneakers and throw them up there. And then you have to figure out how to get good luck in those things that you be like, oh, come on, man. He just threw my Chuck D's up there, bro. My Chucks. [00:44:47] Speaker A: Speaking of Chuck D, man, he was in the this song for a line. Yeah, that was awesome. [00:44:52] Speaker C: I'll go first. I like everything about this song. I'm gonna give it eights across. I just think this is really great. I think maybe because I have so many memories of this kind of stuff going on. I just think it's awesome. Right? [00:45:07] Speaker D: I'm gonna be with you right there. Eight across. So many memories. I was distracted reading and just laughing to myself because it just brought back so many memories. And as the two of you were just rambling along about what he used to be like, I just remember how destroyed the streets were the day after Halloween. It was just a war zone. Eights across. [00:45:26] Speaker B: Quinto plecho. [00:45:27] Speaker A: Bebetaniki. Same mark. If you tell me to go first, I was going to go eights across. Yeah, eights across. [00:45:32] Speaker B: Quintuple. [00:45:34] Speaker C: Okay, next one is high Plains Drifter. [00:47:05] Speaker B: Getting low. So I had to pull a job. I found a nice place to visit. What a better place to work. I left my car outside and the engine still revving. Taking care of business at 7. And I went inside to make my with. [00:47:30] Speaker A: At least I know not where we were. I don't remember ever being a 7 11. Whatever. The first time I went to a 711 was in New Jersey. Oh, my God, this place is amazing. I don't know why. It hit me like, holy, this is so cool. Just like the first time I slept over my cousin's house in New Jersey and my uncle cut the lawn. I had such an allergic reaction to it. The one and only time that, like, haven't you ever been around cook grass? I was like, I don't think so. I've been around the smell of elephant shit from the Bronx Zoo, but I don't think I've ever smelled cut grass before. I think this song is fun. More fun than it is good, if that makes sense. I think because it's kind of fun, it makes it better than what it is. I don't know if that makes any sense. I don't dislike it. I don't like it as much as, obviously the last one. It's okay. Like, I want to kind of keep going and before I really pass major judgment. [00:48:22] Speaker C: Yeah, we didn't have 7:11. That might have been a New York City thing, a Manhattan thing. We didn't have that. We had bodegas. That was the 7 11. [00:48:29] Speaker A: Yes. [00:48:29] Speaker C: Of the Bronx. [00:48:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:31] Speaker C: This is interesting. It's fun. You can. You can definitely tell they have their style. You're not gonna ever think this is a different rap group. They sound so unique that I'm sure there was other things and other rappers that were very similar. Even though that's not even the case. Every rapper was really, really different. There could be a little bit similarities. Generally, everyone had their own style. And that's what was great about this time in hip hop, is that everyone had their style. You can almost tell, just like guitar players who sound a certain way or bands that sound a certain way. You knew this was Beastie Boys. You know what LL Cool J sound sounded like? I do think you're right. I think it's a fun song, but I think that the way it's presented is making it better than it actually is. But Again, I'm gonna not pass the judgment because I'm not too sure. [00:49:12] Speaker D: Again, just create memories and I can't stop laughing about it. I don't remember the first time I ate at 7:11, but I'll tell you the first time I did eat at a Dairy Queen. When I got to a Dairy Queen for the first time, I thought this thing only existed in movies. I thought it was made up. I had no idea what it was. You go outside, you just walk up, you get ice cream. I was like, no freaking way. It's a fun song. I don't know anything outside of that if it's, you know, anything productive. But I still want to listen to it. [00:49:42] Speaker A: I do really like the way they're doing the Drifter parts. The way the voices are doing like Drifter. I really like that part. I think that's my favorite part. I really think they do a good job on that part. It's not a bad song. I don't think it's as good as the one before. I'm like, yeah, let's. Let's see where this goes. [00:49:56] Speaker C: All right, let's continue. Here we go. [00:50:01] Speaker B: Knucklehead deli tried to tip me off the price so I cocked him off the turban with the bag of ice cause I'm a lelo like Gello I made my getaway and then I thought that I had it made I feel like Lemon Queen a former movie star look at my rehearsal on the cap I couldn't help to notice I was chord inner speech. Acting like a. Attack with a dog called Otis with his five o' clock he smelled a three day old beer My man turned to me and said why are you here? I said I'm chasing, I'm dashing I rental car crashing I'm on paper passing that Nick's check cashing I went before the judge he sent me to the Brooklyn house of D. You behave, throw away the key. I took the basis while I went straight to otb. I had a good kneeling. Easy, but easy go short enough. [00:52:20] Speaker A: It's just a funny song. [00:52:22] Speaker C: I like how they finish each other's lines. I always was impressed by that. One guy says something, the other guy finishes it. It rarely does any one line go through without multiple people finishing lines off. [00:52:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I was about to say that too. I give them credit. I like that as well. [00:52:34] Speaker C: It's very impressive. [00:52:35] Speaker A: I like that. [00:52:36] Speaker C: And I do like the High plains Drifter. Drifter, yeah, like that. Drifter Sav. Go first. [00:52:41] Speaker A: I'm thinking six is across for this one, I think that's where I am. I don't think it's bad. I think it's fun. I think it's odd because I'd probably go back to this more for the story, the funniness of the story than anything else. So, yeah, I'll see sixes across, right? [00:52:57] Speaker D: I would be the same sixes across. Just because I think I'll go back like you for the story. It's a fun. They tell a fun story. Like the two of you highlighted. One of the things that was always impressed me was how they were able to finish each other's sentences. They did it so well. Definitely sticks the cross for me. Fun song to listen to. I forgot all about the otb. They used to be everywhere. It seemed like when I was a kid, I don't see them as much anymore. [00:53:21] Speaker A: The OTB green logo. I don't know what it was. I mean, I know what it is [00:53:25] Speaker C: now, but Mark, I'm doing sixes across too. I think the trifecta needs to be here. I think you go back and listen to it for the funness of the song. I like the rapping. I like the way they finish each other's sentences. I think that's always been a fun thing when I listen to them. So I thought it was good. I don't think it's as good as Eggman, but I think Eggman for us has a little bit more nostalgia on it. I think that's why we like it so much. But it was pretty good. I thought it was so far. I'm not hating this at all. [00:53:50] Speaker D: No. [00:53:50] Speaker C: Okay, the next one is the Sounds of Science. [00:54:02] Speaker B: Now here we go. Dropping science dropping it all over like bumping around the town like when you're driving a Range Rover Expanding the horizon Expanding the parameters Expanding the rhymes of soccer MC Amateurs inaugural Isaac Newton A scientific easy A Ben Franklin with the kite A get Nova with the key now rock shocking them Micah the many times times the times table do well to tell the spell all of the old fables and I've been kicking the new canalist and I see to a degree that you can't get in college not the dregs of the earth and the eggs that I eat I got pegs through my hands Everyone through my feet Shade the yum for ra empty square kicked out of the palladium to think that I can't it's the sound of science the sounds of science Science. In new Right up to your face and dis you. [00:55:34] Speaker A: This is clearly a goof Although the lyrics are pretty good. It's funny. I wish it had a beat. I understand what they're. What they're doing. It's definitely different. I give them credit for that. And the lyrics are pretty good. Again, it's amusing if nothing nothing else. [00:55:48] Speaker C: Yeah, it's super amusing. It's super fun. I don't hate it. It's so silly that. How could you hate this? [00:55:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it's fun. I mean it's super fun. [00:55:56] Speaker C: It's really fun. [00:55:57] Speaker D: Yeah, same super fun to listen to. I can't wait for the second part. It's so goofy that. Yeah, I'm loving it because of the goofiness. [00:56:05] Speaker C: Oh, there's some doozies in this lyrics on the second part. Let's do it. Here we go. [00:56:14] Speaker B: Aspire to be as cunning Building a rocket and roll a B size decom Order the quarter deluxe why don't you wait? Cuz my mind's kind of blowing like an oil project up Heading it up to get the jimmy protector Went C work and exploded she woke up in the morning and her face was coated what do you study the man on the M Do what you like. Yo, what's going on? Really knows what I'm talking about yeah, that's right. My name's yeah Constantly on constantly on the final youth not robotize Peace is the word of word before so. I do not sniff the coke I only smoke the Sensei Mila. [00:57:44] Speaker A: I'm glad they did that second part, that middle versus I'm interested references. [00:57:48] Speaker C: And it's very smart too. It's a silly song, but there's some smart in there. [00:57:53] Speaker A: I love the Beatles sample, man. I've always loved that drum sound sound in the sergeant Pepper repease part. It's not the first one, but I've always loved the way his drums sound in that. And I love how they use that for this thought that was really cool. [00:58:06] Speaker C: The sampling is very, very good. And it's got to be hard back in the day. And this is 89. You have to really work at this. This is not easy to do. No, Frank, why don't you go first? [00:58:15] Speaker D: It is really very intelligent written. I think I'm going to go sixes across. Yeah, I'll do six across. I do like the lyrics. I do like the music. Especially that second part. It was so great how they came in with it actually. [00:58:29] Speaker B: What? [00:58:29] Speaker D: I'm gonna go sevens across because as you listen to the song, it just gets better. And I'm pretty sure a couple more replays is gonna make Me like it that much more. So seven's across for me. [00:58:39] Speaker A: Yeah, it's Steve and it's quintuple seven. [00:58:42] Speaker C: Nikki titty baby I'll go next, I think. I don't know if I'm gonna do sevens across, but I think I'm gonna do seven on the lyrics, seven on the melody, six on the music, seven on arrangement, and six on production. I think it's good. I really like it. I think it's a song that if you listen to over and over, you'd find more the more you listen. [00:59:01] Speaker A: I think I'm gonna go sevens across as well. That middle verse didn't make as much sense as the other stuff. The ones around it were better. And I like the fact that they did come in with the beat and they kept the beat. I wasn't sure if they were gonna go back for that last verse and they kept it interesting. It's pretty good. [00:59:15] Speaker D: Nikki Titty Baby Quintuple 7. [00:59:18] Speaker C: Okay, the next one is three minute rule. [00:59:34] Speaker B: I stay up all night I go to sleep watching dragnet never sleep alone because Jimmy is the magnet I'm so rope they call me Mr. Robo when the troubles arise you know I'm the cool just like the Yankees get over on this country like my main man spanking asking the young lady I don't mean to trouble you you lookin so. I slipped on the mitten can't get better odds cross arms a sure thing primarily turning and rolling like a ring thing jumps and turns down never pay the toll they didn't do what? Busting with the B roll customs jail me over in earth see some rat on your boy over some rat weed and out of your back door into another Your boyfriend doesn't know about me and your mother not perfect grammar always perfect timing. The mic stands for money and the D is for diamonds. [01:00:37] Speaker A: This is different. Each ticket a verse. In this one, I guess he practices safe sex if nothing else. I think he's mentioned that in different ways. Again, lyrics are fun. I like the music on this one. [01:00:49] Speaker C: Samples are cool. Is it different that they're not interspersing each other and they're each doing one whole piece one at a time? Which I don't think you hear very much of that with them. They usually are always back and forth. It's interesting and I think the samples have done really well. [01:01:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I like the beat. Yeah, I'm digging this one. [01:01:04] Speaker D: I'll do anything for a ring ding right now. Man, those are so good. The lyrics are so funny. Literally Everything that I'm reading through here is from our childhood, so it's pretty fun. [01:01:15] Speaker A: Yodels were the long ones and Ring Dings were the round ones, right? [01:01:18] Speaker D: Yeah, the Ring Dings were chocolate cake cream in the middle and then it had a hard chocolate coating and they were wrapped in aluminum foil. [01:01:25] Speaker A: And the Yodels were long. Same thing. [01:01:27] Speaker D: But yeah, yeah, the Yodels were long and they didn't have the hard chocolate coating. So the Ring Dings, you throw them in the freezer? [01:01:32] Speaker A: No, but they did. The Yodels had the decoding. [01:01:34] Speaker D: Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. You're. You're correct. I was thinking about the other ones. I confused them with the Ho Hos. Not those Ho Hos, but the Ho. [01:01:43] Speaker C: I like how we pull one thing out of the Ring Ding and you can go off on four minutes of a tirade about Ring Dings. [01:01:51] Speaker A: No. Nobody knows what Marco's through on the backside of these episodes. [01:01:57] Speaker C: Sometimes it's easy, sometimes not so much. [01:02:00] Speaker A: Anything you appreciate about the flow of our podcast, we have to thank Mark and his editing. [01:02:07] Speaker C: Alrighty. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Here we go. [01:02:09] Speaker A: You're welcome. [01:02:25] Speaker B: All MCs out in the place taking life as a cause don't fool, It helps me with my brain. I might be a little dusted but I'm not insane. People come up to me and they try to talk. Man, I was making records when you were sucked in your mother's dick. Girl, you're walking tall now in your fancy clothes. You got fancy things, they're going up your nose. You're getting fancy gifts from expensive men. You're a dog on a leash like a pig in a pen, Brothership connection, getting girls a section. If your life needs correction, don't follow my direction. You got your 8 by 10, your agent, your Holly. You be driving around Holly with yo, sorry, Charlie cuz I'm running things like some Mac. You be slipping and slapping a big sucker. You slip, you slap, you clap me and you lack while I'm reading On the Road by my man Jack Shadow Wax, poetry in motion, coconut lotion. I did this the girl because she got too emotional. Are you experienced, little girl? I want to know what goes on in your little girl world. Cause I'm on your mind so I can get me. I'll take your pride for a ride if you let me. So peace out your a piece of heat. Sawn out the throttle and full blow and I'm out. [01:04:35] Speaker A: It's funny, some of those disses do remind me of that we would say as kids when we're trying to be tough. [01:04:39] Speaker C: It's hysterical. Yeah. [01:04:41] Speaker A: Some of it's funny. Some of it isn't. But some of it is. [01:04:43] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, obviously I think I'm just going to do sixes across on this. I like it. I think I'd have to listen to it for a little bit more to see how much I like it. But I thought it was good regardless. The rapping was good. It was interesting to see them do separate verses. I don't know if I like it as much as them doing it together, which I think I like better. But it was good, though. Frank. [01:05:01] Speaker D: I'm going to do the same sixes across. It's really good. It's funny. It's fun to listen to. I can't go any higher because there are other songs here that I thought were better, but definitely sixes for me. Seth. [01:05:12] Speaker A: And they curse in this one, which they really don't do often. I'm gonna say a five on the lyrics and six on everything else. Maybe four. Four in the lyrics have four on the lyrics. But yeah, I'll say six is on on the rest of it. I think the song around it is. Is good, though. It is cool in a sense when they do this because then you get to appreciate each one's voice and style. I do like it better when they intermixed. [01:05:34] Speaker C: Okay, we're at the end of the first side. This is Hadel, ladies, [01:06:02] Speaker B: You'll ever know And I got more hits than. Your cracks. Up there upon ceiling Such to be the place that I'm doing I'm talking to the girl Telling her about knowing Talking to the kid I'm telling her every lie that you know that I never did hey, ladies. In the house the ladies, the ladies. [01:06:52] Speaker A: I like the music behind it. The lyrics are funny to say that. The lyrics are funny. This is probably going to always say that. I like when you mentioned Chuck Willery. This one's okay. It's more like a ditty to me. [01:07:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I like that. The samples. Curtis blow is one sample. Hey, ladies, get funky that's Curtis blow and then African bombada. And the Jazzy 5 is all the ladies in the house. That's them. That's cool that they put them in there. That's kind of neat. Y It's just funny. The words are good, even if there are a lot of crass things in here, but they're also very hidden and they're not usually, like right up in your face. Give them credit for being able to Double entendre at lots of this stuff. [01:07:27] Speaker D: This was always one of my favorite ones by them being it just some really smart lyrics and play on words here by their behalf. So that's what makes the song so fun. [01:07:36] Speaker C: Right? Let's continue. Here we go. [01:08:17] Speaker B: For one side. Just step to the right, Ladies like beast to a hive. Hey, ladies Funky. Hey, hey, hey, hey ladies. Hey, hey, hey, hey ladies. One more time. Andy Bunker. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ladies. You know that same. [01:08:53] Speaker A: Not much more to say. I mean, you know the lyrics are what they are. Yes. James Brown. [01:08:59] Speaker C: Yeah, they snuck in James Brown. So that was good. Again, it's more of the same. Very smart lyrics. Interesting delivery. I like the song a lot. I like the hate ladies part. I thought that's really good. [01:09:09] Speaker A: I like when he says. And when I say stupid, I mean stupid fresh. For anybody that's younger and like, what the hell does that mean? [01:09:17] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. All right, let's finish it up. Here we go. [01:10:03] Speaker B: Just wear. She thinks she's the passionate one. Hey ladies get bulky. Good God, Brother. [01:10:42] Speaker A: No, that's a weak ending. I should at least screamed out hey ladies like they were doing in the chorus bit. [01:10:47] Speaker C: A lot of these songs run into each other, so that's a problem. [01:10:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I know it's hard to. Sometimes it's a cut it exactly where for a set, I say sixes on everything with the five on the licks. I don't dislike it actually. I say seven on arrangement, seven on production. I'll give those a higher score. I think those are a little bit elevated in this one. Another fun song, Frank. [01:11:10] Speaker D: I'm going to go sevens across on this one. Again, a little really smart lyrics here. Delivery is a lot of fun. The music, the production, everything about it is just really great. I love a lot of the references to things that unless you were coming of age during that time, you have to jump online and take a look and say, okay, what does this mean? What does that mean? Just the fact that it's so relatable. It makes the song great for me. But 7's for me. Nikki Titty Baby Quintuple 7 mark. [01:11:37] Speaker C: There's a lot of pop culture references in here. Like Frank said, you had to have grown up during the time to have an idea what this is. If you're a newer younger kid reading this now, you have to keep going up to Google to try to find out what the fuck they're talking about about. Because you wouldn't know unless you went through this. Welcome back, Cotter like all these things and putting in of different samples at the end I thought was pretty cool. They had the suite in there, they had James Brown in there, things from the band War in there, tons of stuff. So I thought it was cool. I'm gonna give it seven on lyrics and sixes on everything else except for arrangement, I'm gonna do seven. And production, I'm gonna do seven. I thought it was good. Is it my most favorite here? No, but I thought it was really awesome. I generally like their whole vibe, so I thought it was really good. And this is an interesting record for us to get get. Since we rarely do this, we usually do rock, metal, hard rock for us to get this. And I put it on there on purpose. They're hoping that one day we would get it. Just because I would like to review it just because I don't think I've ever heard the whole thing. [01:12:30] Speaker A: Believe it or not, my favorite line in this, the relatable, was when he says the phone booth on the corner is damp and it's stinking. Because that shit's relatable. [01:12:40] Speaker C: If you grew up in a certain time frame. Yes, it is. [01:12:43] Speaker A: Yeah. The ones where you close your yourself in. [01:12:46] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, that's the worst. [01:12:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:12:48] Speaker C: Smells like piss. It's horrible. [01:12:50] Speaker A: Yep, yep, yep. [01:12:51] Speaker C: All right, Sav, why don't you do your thing? [01:12:52] Speaker A: We are part of the Deep Dive Podcast network and the Boneless Podcast network. [01:12:57] Speaker C: Boneless, you know, like those chicken wings without the bone. [01:12:59] Speaker A: Like I always say. Great bunch of guys both took us in right away. If you want individual podcasts about bands, Tom Petty, Uriah, he Zeppelin, Metallica, you name it, it's probably on there. So check them out. And mark, where can they find us [01:13:11] Speaker C: on the Interweb Rock with that pod on all of the social media rock podcast.com, do the polls, do the merch, you know what to do. Put us on your auto download and rate us 5 stars where you rate your podcast because that helps us out. And next week we'll finish part two of this up and we'll see what part two does and what side two shows us. I think we're going to like it. We like this most of this whole thing, so I can't think we're not going to like this. [01:13:32] Speaker A: If nothing else, it's definitely fun and it's enjoyable. I know that's like boring word but I mean, I'm trying to think of like another thing, but it's just kind of know what you get with these guys, I think. [01:13:41] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. This silly stuff. But even in their silly stuff, the lyrics are very smart in the silliness. You could sit down and look through these lyrics and go, wow, look how they put that here. And look how they're mentioning these things and the way they do their lyrics, Even the stuff that's not your most favorite stuff on there, I think it's very smart. Their lyrics are super smart. [01:13:59] Speaker A: Yeah. And obviously, we're finding quite a few things relatable. [01:14:03] Speaker C: Yeah. All right, we will see you next week. [01:14:05] Speaker A: Ciao. Ciao. [01:14:06] Speaker D: Have a good night. [01:14:07] Speaker C: Later.